Sun StorageTek Super DLT Drive
StorageTek Super DLT Drive
Overview
Cost-effective with uncompromising performance. The Super DLT (SDLT) 600 tape drive extends the value of high-capacity, cost-effective tape storage to meet the growing business and performance requirements of the mid-range customer.
At A Glance
- Compelling price per stored gigabyte
- Advanced performance enables complete MS Exchange Information Store to be restored in under four minutes
- SAN-ready with a choice of either two-gigabit optical Fibre Channel or ultra 160 SCSI interfaces to leverage current infrastructures
- WORM (write once, read many) -capable archival functionality at no additional cost to support customer compliance and regulatory requirements
Designed For You
- Business Continuance: Shortens backup and recovery times
- Disaster recovery: Permits remotely vaulting data in tape form
- Archiving: Supports aggressive archival growth rates
- Compliance: Meets government regulation and internal data retention policies
A new landscape of performance and capacity
With up to 300 gigabytes of storage and 36-megabytes per second sustained native data transfer rate, the SDLT tape drive is well suited for storing, archiving and backing up large volumes of data in midrange UNIX and Windows NT environments.
Features and Benefits
Winning performance and capacity levels set the stage to do more with fewer storage resources at much lower storage costs.
Key Benefits
- SDLT 600 nearly doubles the capacity of previous generation SDLT 320, dramatically lowering storage costs.
- SDLT 600 is more than two times faster than the SDLT 320, resulting in faster data retrieval.
- Built-in SDLT 600 WORM functionality simplifies planning and provides on-the-fly secure storage.
Cost-effective capacity with faster backup/restore
Store more
The native capacities of up to 300 gigabytes per cartridge for the SDLT 600 and 160 gigabytes per cartridge for the SDLT 320 store more data with fewer storage resources and at a lower cost.
Shorten backup and recovery windows
The SLDT 600 tape drive delivers a sustained native data transfer rate of 36 megabytes per second, more than doubling the performance of the previous generation SDLT 320 tape drive. Increased performance helps meet shrinking backup windows.
Improved manageability and compatibility
Reduce complexity and increase manageability
The DLTSage™ suite of management tools adds intelligence to the SDLT 600 tape drive. Through predictive and preventive maintenance diagnostic offerings, tape storage management is improved and simplified.
Mitigate risk
Be compliant with the law. Quantum’s DLTIce™ Storage Down Cold technology works in conjunction with DLTSage™ and the SDLT 600 tape drive to provide a versatile storage solution. Leverage the same tape drive and standard media for help with regulatory compliance as well as traditional backup and archiving.
Increase compatibility
The SDLT 600 tape drive is available with two-gigabit optical Fibre Channel or LVD Ultra 160 SCSI interface. The SDLT 320 is available with the HVD or LVD SCSI interface.
The SDLT 600 tape drive reads information stored on SuperDLTtape 1 cartridges. The SLDT 320 tape drive provides backward read/write compatibility with SDLT 220 tape drives. It is optionally backward-read compatible with multiple DLT technologies using DLTtape IV cartridges.
Key Specifications
- 300 gigabyte SDLT 600 capacity on a single cartridge
- SAN-ready with either Fibre Channel or Ultra 160 SCSI interfaces on the SDLT 600
- 36 megabytes-per-second performance with SDLT 600
- WORM functionality using a single cartridge for both WORM and conventional storage